Small Wars Journal

Gian Gentile

BIO

Award-winning historian, associate professor of history, and director of the military history program at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Author of How Effective is Strategic Bombing? Lessons Learned from World War II to Kosovo. A serving Army Colonel, commanded a combat battalion in West Baghdad in 2006. Currently working on a study on four sets of generals in counterinsurgency as a visiting fellow at the Council for Foreign Relations.

Articles by this Author

Beneficial War: The Conceit of American Counterinsurgency Sun, 12/25/2011 - 9:56am
COIN is Dead: U.S. Army Must Put Strategy Over Tactics Tue, 11/22/2011 - 10:16am
A Few Questions for Colonel Paul Yingling on Failures in Generalship Tue, 10/11/2011 - 6:17am
Prine on Abrams and Primary Sources Fri, 07/01/2011 - 7:06pm
The Death of the Armor Corps Sat, 04/17/2010 - 8:59am
Nation Building at the Barrel of an American Gun? Sun, 09/13/2009 - 9:19am
Gaining the Initiative in Afghanistan Wed, 09/02/2009 - 4:34pm